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[!RebGUI] A lightweight alternative to VID

Ashley
22-Jun-2005
[1626]
Reasons:

	1) Solid authoring tools
	2) Access to a large number of existing SVG icons (if needed)
	3) The standard for vector graphics
	4) Interoperability

 5) Publicity ("we support SVG icons", as opposed to, "our icons are 
 just REBOL blocks")


If we generate our own content then there is nothing stopping us 
having icons in source form (SVG) *and* pre-compiled form (draw block).
Pekr
22-Jun-2005
[1627]
Thanks, I thought so ...
Gabriele
22-Jun-2005
[1628]
rewrite Inkscape in REBOL. :P
Allen
22-Jun-2005
[1629]
There's probably more windows metafiles floating around than SVG. 
ooh another project for someone :-)
Anton
22-Jun-2005
[1630]
Inkscape will need some icons for its interface.
Allen
22-Jun-2005
[1631]
There was a version of paint.r that output to SVG. I think Jeff did 
it
DideC
22-Jun-2005
[1632x2]
Don't know inkscape, But I'm on a Draw editor script since yesterday 
;-), but, hey, chhhh...
OK, after looking the inkscape website, don't expect too much of 
my project :-/
Henrik
22-Jun-2005
[1634x2]
didec: don't want to do double work, but I am working on one too, 
specifically for makedoc2 :-)
it wont be particularly complex, just something that allows you to 
draw simple diagrams quickly and copy the draw commands to the clopboard 
for insertion in your doc.
shadwolf
22-Jun-2005
[1636x4]
AS far I I done My test InkSCape is the good one ... (but it's SVG 
output can be little bit complicated...) I have tested thegimp sodipodi 
(abandonned) and inkscape . and the more suitable od those 3 is InkScape 
very easy of use portable and full featured :)
inkskape edit very well the set of icons you provided with svg-demo.r 
;)
http://www.inkscape.org/
see screen shots entry in the menu of the inkscape website to have 
a view on what this tool can do for us ;)
Carl
22-Jun-2005
[1640x2]
It would be good to see more REBOL SVG tools.
I am a bit surprised not to see any DRAW SVG tool yet.... even just 
a small one.
shadwolf
22-Jun-2005
[1642]
Sure but we are lamers .... sorry ...
Carl
22-Jun-2005
[1643x2]
My son, who helped with View 1.3 is using Fireworks to create the 
graphics, then a small REBOL script to convert to DRAW format.
Shadwolf... or maybe too sunny and nice outside too, eh?
shadwolf
22-Jun-2005
[1645]
first we need to learn th SVG format ...
Pekr
22-Jun-2005
[1646]
shadwolf - the question is, if AGG is capable enough to allow all 
possible renderings. But let's hope it is. Mozilla foundation is 
going to use Cairo library. Hopefully Maxim will stil improve on 
AGG ...
Carl
22-Jun-2005
[1647]
I told DideC not to go to the beach unless I get to go too.
Graham
22-Jun-2005
[1648]
Maybe your son can help with  the Rebgui project now that 1.3 is 
out?
shadwolf
22-Jun-2005
[1649]
Carl that's absolutly not the problem here it''s 34°C sunny days 
and I'm plug all the day long to my pc but there so mutch thing to 
do ..
Volker
22-Jun-2005
[1650]
Ashley mentioned he has something small. And Cyphre has too, but 
commercially closed.
Graham
22-Jun-2005
[1651]
Cyphre can't use his code .. but that doesn't mean he can't take 
the knowledge and apply it
Carl
22-Jun-2005
[1652]
Pekr: I know that Cyphre has put a few large city maps into DRAW, 
and they looked pretty good. We just need to get him to tell us more 
about it.
Graham
22-Jun-2005
[1653]
unless there's a non compete clause.
shadwolf
22-Jun-2005
[1654x2]
http://www.dobeash.com/files/svg-demo.zipfor Ashley SVG renderer 
drawer script
AShley rocks but inkscape ouput is not supported until now
Volker
22-Jun-2005
[1656]
Ashley promised to add more rocks when we start with small (as in 
features) images and grow.
shadwolf
22-Jun-2005
[1657]
http://shadwolf.free.fr/fraisier.pnghttp://shadwolf.free.fr/fraisier.png
Pekr
22-Jun-2005
[1658]
do you ppl think that SVG along with CSS are future of web? That 
html as we know it today, will be put to rest in few years?
shadwolf
22-Jun-2005
[1659x4]
this is my first big image draw intent with  inkscape ...
sure the ideal thing would be to have a rebol clone of inkscape ... 
But this will take lot of time to write ...
http://shadwolf.free.fr/fraisier.png
sorry for the bad link ...
Volker
22-Jun-2005
[1663]
btw instead of those zips, should we change to view-desktop for demos?
Pekr
22-Jun-2005
[1664]
I want rebol clone of Scala multimedia better :-) SVG is nice, but 
I want things to move and move fast and smoothly - impossible today 
...
shadwolf
22-Jun-2005
[1665]
the only thing that I wasnt able to do is use TTF font files with 
Inscape
Carl
22-Jun-2005
[1666]
Pekr: on Scala - yes me too!
Pekr
22-Jun-2005
[1667x4]
we should integrate fmod for sound, and bitstream for fonts - even 
Qt uses bitstream and the basic engine is under 150KB?
Carl - what would be needed? My impression is, that smooth scrolling 
is not possible with Win32 API?
I remember talking to Dave Haynie and he told me, that when working 
in Scala, they had to code own sub-os, to get precise timers, synchronisation 
etc. So - dunno. Took lots of work for them. And Rebol has to be 
cross-platform, so, maybe it is impossible to achieve. But you know 
better - you're the media guy! :-)
If all is needed is DirectX - then go for it, I think it is on every 
Windows machine nowadays ...
Graham
22-Jun-2005
[1671]
Pekr, how long ago was that?  Hardware has got more powerful  ... 
Moore's law
Pekr
22-Jun-2005
[1672x4]
and btw - will min-face concept help in that regard?
Graham - it is basic logic - try to move face per pixel - you get 
very jerky result, slow. Then download some Scala demo - AMAZING. 
You will FEEL the difference. And Carl told us some time ago, that 
rebol already uses double-buffering ...
... so my question is rather simple - can it ever be done, using 
plain Win32 API?
IIRC Carl also planned to improve granularity of event system, introduce 
view plug-ins, but I don't know ...